DE KIJKDOOS QUESTIONS ISSUES WITHIN THE CURRENT CULTURE IN RELATION TO A POSSIBLE COMING CULTURE. RESEARCH IS DONE BY WAY OF CULTURAL PRODUCTION AND BASED ON A BELIEVE IN COOPERATION. BY COMBINING THINKING AND DOING WE BRING FORTH A SLOW-CRITIQUE OF VALUE IN A WORLD OF SUPERFLUID DIS-CREDIT.

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2012WE TELL STORIES1

An Anthology

We Tell Stories brings together artists and writers, doers and thinkers to spell out the possibilities of storytelling as a cultural practice today. Various ways of storytelling ― performance, public action, conversation, writing, drawing, photography etc.― will come to the fore. In 5 exhibitions and 5 social gatherings We Tell Stories, in short, presents an anthology of meaningful stories told today.

A social gathering will be held by way of opening the exhibition. On the first day of each exhibition there will be an event to gather round: a performance, a public action, a talk. A moment to cheer, mingle and share lively thoughts. All social gatherings will be held on a Friday at 17.00 (see events). At the start of the weekend this will be your cultural excuse to let your work be ― drop those books, come out of the library! Don’t be the romantic loner, leave your atelier! ― We Tell Stories brings you culture shared with others under the summer sun!

1What if storytelling could be one of the possibilities to surpass cultural relativism and evade scepticism towards changing things for the better… how to put it into practice? What to tell? How to tell it and to whom? Moreover, how to rethink and distribute the relation between the teller and the public? If I tell you a story is it not you who adds to it by imagining the story yourself? If so, storytelling enfolds itself to be above all a social practice, one of sharing and adding to each others thoughts. Henceforth you, the public, become crucial to make the circle round. Then how to accommodate all this sociality? Can we act up to this frankness? Could we come to a shared imaginative momentum and tell new stories about ourselves? We Tell Stories talks the talk and walks the walk; let’s find out if storytelling could be both a pragmatic as well as a poetic approach to how we imagine ourselves, our social relations and our surroundings to be. Is it in shared stories that we could suspend the disbelief in adding to the world for the better?